. Art in France. .^20.—JISTICE MICHEL COLOMBE. NANTES CATHEDRAL. FIG. 321.—SAINT MARTHA. CHURCH OF THE , TROYES. 55 AT IN FRANCE. FIC. 322.—THE OF SAINT JEAN, TKOVES, decorators, tried the fashionable ornaments of the day on its vastsides. In time, thev mtermingled ItaHan arabesques and the fantasies of the Hainboyant Style; then theornamental grammar of the ancientswas accepted in its entirety, for nothingprevented architects from designingantique pilasters upon buttresses, orcarving Corinthian capitals to supportthe arches of a vault. In those partsof the c
. Art in France. .^20.—JISTICE MICHEL COLOMBE. NANTES CATHEDRAL. FIG. 321.—SAINT MARTHA. CHURCH OF THE , TROYES. 55 AT IN FRANCE. FIC. 322.—THE OF SAINT JEAN, TKOVES, decorators, tried the fashionable ornaments of the day on its vastsides. In time, thev mtermingled ItaHan arabesques and the fantasies of the Hainboyant Style; then theornamental grammar of the ancientswas accepted in its entirety, for nothingprevented architects from designingantique pilasters upon buttresses, orcarving Corinthian capitals to supportthe arches of a vault. In those partsof the church of Saint Pierre at Caenwhich were built after I 520 by PierreSohier (Fig. 304), we find this com-bination of the Flamboyant Style andItalian decoration. The pinnacles ofthe apse are in the form of curvedvases, with convolutions and sculp-tured arabesques which destroy thesoaring lightness of the Gothic the interior, crockets and consoleshang on the ribs of the vaults likesome heavy vegetation. But in theover-rich decoration, there is a latent principle of regularity andsymmetry which was subsequently to simplify this exube
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